[Lazarus] Supported Lazarus platforms
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Fri Feb 22 11:11:12 CET 2008
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:09:24AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 22/02/2008, ik <idokan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I asked to mark the libc unit as obsolete because it set only for
> > i386, but many users here use it anyway, although the Unix libraries
> > have the same functions as well..
>
> Well, not all of them! In the fpGUI project I use two libc functions
> for Linux which aren't available in the unixbase etc units. I did
> IFDEF that code, created an alternative for other platforms like
> FreeBSD and limited it to only one location in the code so as not to
> use it elsewhere.
Like? Note that the password stuff is now in both 2.2.1 and 2.3.x in the
"users" package.
> But yes, libc can be misleading to a unknown developer. I fell in that
> trap in the beginning when I didn't know it was Linux and x86
> specific.
Maybe we should get it over with and add deprecated to all functions.
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